LAURA-GRAY STREET

Laura-Gray Street has received a poetry fellowship
from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Dana Award in Poetry,
and The Greensboro Review Award in Poetry. She was also the 2003
poetry winner in the Emerging Writers Contest sponsored by the
Southern Women Writers Conference. Her poems have been published
in Shenandoah, Meridian, the Notre Dame Review, The
Greensboro Review, the Yalobusha Review, New
Virginia Review, and the website
Poetry Daily, among other venues. She has been nominated for three
times for a Pushcart Prize, and her work has been commissioned
by the New York Festival of Song. Street has been a fellow at the
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and writer-in-residence at
the Artist House at St. Mary's College in Maryland. Her work is
currently part of Pivot Points, the traveling exhibition showcased
in our Gallery section. Street holds a BA from Hollins University,
an MA from the University of Virginia, and an MFA from the Warren
Wilson Program for Writers. She is assistant professor of English
at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia.